> responsiveness of the app has dropped to 1987 levels?
Donno about 1987, but everything I do other than locally develop code with emacs has a responsiveness far worse than I remember from 1997. Everything has to load some stupid javascript, everything has a delayed reaction to each click or scroll. Nothing just runs or just works anymore. The cost of a lower barrier to entry for "software" development. :/
You and I remember ‘97 quite differently. It took 5-10 minutes to download .txt guides to video games (in 99 I downloaded ocarina of times walkthrough and that thing was a monster!)
Hell I remember waiting almost an hour to download the Spider-Man 2 trailer in 2002. Meanwhile now I’m watching 1080p YouTube videos while running my entire dev environment locally (database, front and backend + code editor) and still it takes a second at the most to load 99% of pages.
Donno about 1987, but everything I do other than locally develop code with emacs has a responsiveness far worse than I remember from 1997. Everything has to load some stupid javascript, everything has a delayed reaction to each click or scroll. Nothing just runs or just works anymore. The cost of a lower barrier to entry for "software" development. :/